Zastrow (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Zastrow

Zastrow is the name of an old Pomeranian noble family . The family, some of whose branches still exist today, belong to the ancient nobility of Western Pomerania . Kinship consists of several letter noble branches, the mid-18th century ennobled were. A line has existed since 1943 under the name of Zastrow-Marcks .

history

origin

The family was first mentioned in 1270 with Conradus de Zastrow in a document from Duke Barnim I for the city of Greifswald . After Kneschke , Claus von Zastrow , who appeared at the end of the 13th century, also belonged to the family. He was the district administrator of the Pomeranian Duke Bogislaus.

Klein Zastrow , the family's ancestral home, is now part of the Dersekow community near Greifswald in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It appears for the first time in 1248 as Cyastareo and was owned by the family from 1272.

Spread and personalities

Members of the family settled in all of Pomerania early on, including in Risnow in 1402, in Dobberphul, Stregow, Dargeröse, Glietzke and Wusterhausen in the middle of the 15th century and as a majorate in Kölpin near Kolberg in 1581 . Over the centuries they established eight lines in Pomerania and later reached Prussia , Posen , the Rhine Province and Thuringia , where they owned Kannawurf .

In 1630 Johann von Zastrow became the ducal Pomeranian castle captain and chamber councilor of Stettin . Ludwig von Zastrow (1680–1761) became Kur-Braunschweig-Lüneburgischer ("Kurhannover") General of the Infantry and Commander of Stade . Georg Ludwig von Zastrow (1710–1762) was Major General of the Electorate of Hanover and Christian von Zastrow (1705–1773) was Lieutenant General of the Electorate of Hanover . Caspar Wilhelm Philipp von Zastrow was a royal Saxon lieutenant general, fortress commander of Königstein and chief of a cuirassier regiment .

Numerous other members of the family were in Brandenburg or royal Prussian state services and achieved the highest dignity as officers in the Prussian army . Bernhard Asmus von Zastrow from the Kölpin family was a royal Prussian major general, head of an infantry regiment and a knight of the Pour le Mérite order . He died on April 25, 1757 at the beginning of the Seven Years' War from an enemy bullet. His brother Carl Anton Leopold von Zastrow was major general, chief of an infantry regiment and knight of the order Pour le Mérite. In 1761 he became the commandant of Schweidnitz . When the Austrians stormed the city on October 1st of the same year, he was captured with the entire garrison . A few years later, after being replaced, he received his release and died in 1779. Johann Wenzel von Zastrow († 1773) became Prussian major general, head of a dragoon regiment, knight of the order Pour le Mérite, governor of Stolpe and Oletzko and heir to grand and lord Kleintippeln in East Prussia . Jacob Rüdiger von Zastrow, who died on March 30, 1782, was also a Prussian major general, head of an infantry regiment, knight of the Pour le Mérite and Drost zu Linum, Luhnen and Hörde. Friedrich Wilhelm Christian von Zastrow (* 1752) died on July 22nd, 1830 as a Prussian general of the infantry, former governor of the Principality of Neuchâtel , envoy extraordinary and authorized minister at the court of Munich and knight of the Order of the Black Eagle . His son Carl Ludwig von Zastrow died in 1835 as a Prussian major general and commandant of Glogau .

Friedrich von Zastrow, user of the Fideikommiss Verchland with Klein Küssow, established by his great-aunt Friederike von Zastrow, born Countess von Küssow, received a Prussian name association with that of von Küssow as von Zastrow called von Küssow on August 15, 1801 in Berlin .

The family association of those von Zastrow holds family days every two years.

Postage-like lines

Carl Christian (* 1743), Friedrich Erdmann (* 1747), Peter Lorenz (* 1754) and Ferdinand (* 1756), the natural sons of the Prussian captain Anselm von Zastrow from the house of Dageröse and Christine Bielkau, received on June 2nd In 1757 in the field camp during the siege of Prague, a Prussian nobility legitimation with the settlement of the father's name and coat of arms by the highest cabinet order . The notification took place on May 1, 1764 in Berlin. Her father died a few days later on June 8, 1757 during the fighting.

Zastrow-Marcks

Palzig manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

With the son of the imperial dragoons in the regiment of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach Johann Marx, Johann Albrecht Marx (around 1719–1773), new citizen in Sugenheim in Middle Franconia , the line of this line begins . Hans Günther Marcks (* 1930), one of his descendants and son of Lieutenant General Werner Marcks and Maria-Jutta von Zastrow, received the name von Zastrow-Marcks on December 10, 1943 by decree of the Prussian Minister of the Interior. He was the heir of the Zastrow property, Palzig, after the last male bearer of this branch's name fell in 1942.

A nobility law non-objection to the name form of Zastrow-Marcks took place on July 16, 1957 by resolution of the committee for nobility law issues of the German nobility associations . The coat of arms from 1958 is similar to the ancestral coat of arms of the Pomeranian nobility. Above a green shield base in silver it shows an uprooted five-leaf green perennial, on the helmet with blue-silver helmet covers the perennial between two buffalo horns divided by green and silver over a corner.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows an uprooted five-leaf green perennial in silver. On the helmet with its blue-silver covers, the bush between two silver buffalo horns .

The escutcheon of the strain Dargeröse shows the root and crest as crest pushing mode a growing Virgin in split of silver and blue garment with a green ring on the main rights in a natural bay holding wreath, the left hip. The helmet covers are blue-silver.

Known family members

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Carl Dähnert : Pomeranian Library 3. Greifswald, 1754, p. 411.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, pp. 467–469.
  3. ↑ a b c New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 9, pp. 620–621.
  4. ↑ andreas-zastrow.de